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Essays on physiognomy : for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind (1794)

Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801, Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809, translator, Spotswood, William, 1753?-1805, bookseller, West, David, 1765-1810, bookseller, Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804, engraver · Boston : Printed for William Spotswood, & David West · leaf 125

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are his principal cha-racteriftics. Not having wit, he indulges his fenfi-bility. Moral good is the colouring which he re-quires in all arts. His epic and lyric fpirit walk inunfrequented paths. Hence his great, and fre-quently gigantic fenfe, which feldom permits himthe clear afpecl of enthufiafm,… … w PHYSIOGNOMY. 11,1 CHAP T E R XX(I. Defcription of Plate IV. Number I.E may certainly call nofes arched and point- ed like this, witty ; but the wit is retrain-ed and moderated by. the acute undemanding ofthe forehead, the fincere religion of the eye, andthe phlegm of the chin. Number 2.The…

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